Services for Evelyn Christian, 93, of Kilgore, will be Monday, March 19, 2007 at two 0’clock in the Chapel of Rader Funeral Home with the Reverend Buddy Duggins Mrs. Christian passed away Friday, March 16, 2007 in Kilgore. Interment will be in the Concord Cemetery near Naples, Texas. There will not be a formal visitation.

Mrs. Christian was born on February 22, 1914 in Omaha, Texas. She was one five children born to the late Hiram and Tennie Smith. She and her brothers and sisters were raised on their parent’s farm in Morris County, Texas. She was married to the late Fred Christian and they had one son, Rod Christian. She was a housemother for the Phi Kappa Tau Fraternity at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Mrs. Christian was a governess in Houston, Texas and was later a manicurist in Kilgore.